Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FOULKES, ANNIE (1877 - 1962), editor of an anthology , France, 1896-97. She was a French teacher at Bray, Co. Wicklow, 1897, at Tregaron county school, 1898-1905, and Barry county school, 1905-18. In 1918 she was appointed Executive Secretary of the Appointments Board of the University of Wales, to succeed Robert Silyn Roberts. At Barry she was a member of a literary circle which formed around Thomas Jones, C.H. and Silyn - the group behind the
THOMAS, DAVID (1880 - 1967), educationalist, author and pioneer of the Labour Party in north Wales , llythyrau a sgyrsiau (1954), a biography of Silyn (Robert Silyn Roberts) 1871-1930 (1956), and Ann Griffiths a'i theulu (1963); also ' Glendid iaith ', a weekly column on grammar in Y Faner (c. 1957-62). As a tribute to him he was presented with the volume, Ben Bowen Thomas (ed.), Lleufer y werin; cyfrol deyrnged i David Thomas, M.A. (1965), and his autobiography was published posthumously, Diolch am gael
EVANS, THOMAS (Tomos Glyn Cothi; 1764 - 1833), Unitarian minister the first specifically Unitarian minister in Wales Born at Capel Sant Silyn, Gwernogle, Carmarthenshire, 20 June 1764. His early education was neglected; for a short time he was a farmer's boy, after which he followed his craft as a weaver. He used to go from fair to fair in Glamorgan to sell his cloth, and that was how he came into contact with the poets of that county. He was at the gorsedd of Mynydd y Garth, midsummer, 1797. From his earliest
ROBERTS, ROBERT (SILYN) (Rhosyr; 1871 - 1930), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, social reformer, tutor
ROBERTS, ARTHUR RHYS (1872 - 1920), solicitor of a Methodist minister from Arfon and a former pupil of the Salop School. It was not unexpected that the company, in addition to its London clients, had developed a professional link with the Calvinistic Methodist Church and its ministers, with Roberts giving advice, in 1908, to the Reverend R. Silyn Roberts on an accusation of libel made against him by another minister, (D. M. Phillips
PARRY, ROBERT IFOR (1908 - 1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher ordained in June 1933, as the successor of the Revs. David Price (1843-78) and D. Silyn Evans (1880-1930). In 1940, he married Mona, the only daughter of Richard Morgan, a deacon at Siloa. The author of these words remembers staying in September 1959 at their home in Newlands, Aberdare, during a Collecting Journey towards the Bala-Bangor College – as was the custom in those days. The vicar of Aberdare
THODAY, MARY GLADYS (1884 - 1943), scientist, suffragist, peace-campaigner , together with Charlotte Price White and Mary Silyn Roberts, and Gladys was one of the speakers who addressed the crowd. The North Wales Women's Peace Council was established in the aftermath of the Peace Pilgrimage. Gladys was, from the outset, its Honorary Secretary, a role she held until her death. A prolific letter writer, she challenged individuals, organisations, politicians and even international
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor eisteddfod of 1909 for his poem on ' Yr Arglwydd Rhys '. Love lyrics by him appeared in the periodical Cymru in 1900, and in the same year he and his friend R. Silyn Roberts published a collection of their poems under the title Telynegion: Caneuon a Cherddi, Gruffydd's own poems, followed in 1906. In 1923 Ynys yr Hud a chaneuon eraill appeared, containing poems written between 1900 and 1922. A selection of
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar , the first to achieve such a result. He graduated in Latin (second class) a year later. At Aberystwyth he also won the main literary prizes at the college eisteddfod. These early works - written in both Welsh and English - show the influence of the neo-romantic lyricism of W. J. Gruffydd and R. Silyn Roberts' Telynegion (1900). Spurred on by his mentor and Professor of Welsh at Aberystwyth, Edward

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